“The ‘Apollonian’ and the ‘Dionysian’ became the most famous of Nietzsche’s binary concepts; but other Heraclitus-inspired ideas are even more provocative: “pain and pleasure are not opposites”, “health and sickness are not essentially different”, “scorners are only hidden admirers”, “truth is a lie according to fixed convention”, etc. Significantly, Nietzsche’s discourse is not an exercise in Hegelian dialectics (involving a synthesis of opposite ideas), but a contrapuntal (intertwining) dance of ideas; hence it is futile to look for synthesis or a final resolution in his writings.”

An excerpt from this excellent piece entitled Nietzsche: Love, Guilt & Redemption, found over at Philosophy Now.

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